Seymour rogers



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S. ROGERS.

WIRE MAT. l No. 408,047. Patented Ju'1yv130, 1889.

UNITED STATES i PATENT OFFICE..

SEYMOUR ROGERS, OF BEAVER FALLS, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSLGNOR TO H. lV. HARTMAN, OF SAME PLACE.

WIRE MAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,047, dated July 30, 1889. Application leu July 5, 1888. Serial No. 2'7`9,063. (No model.)

To all whom, it puny concern:

Be it known that I, SEYMOUR ROGERS, a A citizen of the United States, and a resident of Beaver Falls, in the county of Beaver and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new `and useful Improvements in Tire Mats, Yof which the following is a specification. w My invention has reference to wire door- 'matsg a\nd it consists of certainimprovements, if ll ofjvhich are fully set forth in the followspecification and shown in the accompaying drawings, which form a part thereof.

Door-mats have heretofore been made of steel wire woven orinterlaced in such a manner as to produce a substantial body well adapted to the purpose for which it is designed. Such mats, however, have had the objection that they were bounded by a rigid frame to keep the flexible center in shape, and the rigidity of this frame prevented any possibility of rolling the mat up for transportation or other purposes.

The object of my invention is to so form the mat and the frame of flexible or steel wire that the same shall not only be flexible, with capacity for being rolled up, but so as to present a more ornamental appearance with a cheap construction.

The details of my invention are fully shown in the drawings, in which- Figure l is a plan view representing' my improved mat, a port-ion of which figure shows the exact construction and coupling of the wire, and the remainder of the outline being indicated in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a crosssection of same on line X X. Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view of same on line Y Y of Fig. 2, and with the intermediate coils of wire removed to illustrate ,the Vstaple or hinge wires. Fig. 4 is an end view of my m'at rolled up, (details of wire not shown,) and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the splice-tube.

The body Ovof the mat is made up of transverse parallel coils A A of spring steel or 4 5 other suitable wire, and arranged side by side and interlocking, as shown in Figs. l and 2, and said coils are connected together, with capacity for flexibility, by means of the stapleshaped hinge-rods B'. These rods B have a flat bend in the middle, as at b, and after being pushed through the interlocked coils of three :adjacent coils A, so .as to hinge them together, the ends b thereof are bent over, as shown in Figs. l and 3, to lock or secure them firmly in place. In practice it is customary to push these hinge-rods B in alternately from opposite sides of the body of the mat, and thusmore uniformly distribute the j .ends l) o and make the body of the mat of uniform strength and durability. It is evident that these hinge-rods may be single or unbent rods, as shown at G, Fig. l; but there is less work required and more strength gained in making the mat with them in the form shown. This body portion of the mat, it will be seen, is made by tying or locking the adjacent coils together bythe hinge-rods, and the coils or Wires forming such body part are not of themselves interlaced or interwoven, asis customary in other makes of mats of this class and when iieXibility is not required.

The body part C so formed is bounded on its edges with coils D, of similar appearance and construction, which are twisted into or interwoven with the lateral terminals of the body-coils A, as clearly shown in Fig. l.

It will be seen by examining Fig. l that the Yboundingecoils D are interlooped with the hinge-rods, and that these rods B and G hold the bounding-coil D to the body part, increasing thedurability without increase in labor of production. In this connection it is evil dent that a decided advantage is to be had by inserting the staple-shaped hinge-rods B alternately from opposite sides, as they present the looped ends h on each side of the mat to interloop with the bounding-coils. It is preferable to make the bounding-coils D in two parts and secure them to the sides of the mat, as above set out, and then take the eX- tending ends d (see dotted lines, Fig. l) and bend them toward each other, forming graceful rounded corners F, and connect the ends splice-tubes are preferably made of light sheet metal, and are slotted, as at c, to receive the curved sides of the adjacent coils A, (see Fig.

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2,) and thus hold itself, as well as the coils it supports, in a liXed relation with respect to the body-coils. The coils of the ends of the bounding-coils D are connected or hinged to the adjacent body-coils A by the hinge-wire G, as inv the case of the wires -B and bodycoils, and the ends g are bent over to secure Vtube E might be made solid, it' desired; but

there would be no object therein, and it would havethe objection of weight. The corners F in the construction here shown are very ornamental and extremely durable, and that, too, with a minimum cost.

In carrying outthe generic features of my invention the particular method of obtaining the flexibility herein set out may be modiiied without departing from. my invention.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is y l. In a wire mat, a body part composed of a series of parallel coils united by hinge-rods, in combination with a bounding-coil made in one or more lparts extending entirely around the mat and arranged transversely to the bodycoils on two sides of the mat, and in which the hinge-rods are intel-looped with the ends of such body-coils and bounding-coils, substantially as set forth.

2. In a wire mat, a body part formed of a series of parallel coils connected together, in combination with a bounding-coil made in one or more parts and arranged transversely to the body-coils and along their ends, and wire rods extending through the body-coils and entirely across the body of the mat and connecting the bounding-coils on diametrically opposite sides of the mat to the bodycoils, substantially as set forth.

3. In a wire mat, the body portion formed of a series of parallel coils of wire, combined with a series of staple-shaped hin ge-rods connecting the adjacent coils together, and in which said staple-shaped hinge-rods arerinuniting the parallel portions of the bound-vv ing-coil to the end coil of the body part, substantially as set forth.

5. In a wire mat, the body part formed of a series of parallel coils, combined with staple-shaped hinge-rods connecting the parallel coils, and a flexible bounding-coil made in one or more parts and arranged transversely to the body-coils, interwoven both with the ends of the said body-coils and looped ends of the staple-shaped hinge-rods, substantially as set forth.

G. In a wire mat, a body part formed: of wire-Work, combined with bOunding-coi'iSD, extending along two diametrically-oppos2te edges of the body `part and bent yaroiynd .n corners toward each other and madefto meel or substantially meet, onv the other edg@ I the body part, a splice tube or piece E, z ranged partly within each of the ends ofthe bounding-coils, and a connection between the said bounding-coils on each side of the splice-tube and the body part, substantially as set forth.

7. In a wire mat, Athe body part formed of parallel coils of wire united by hinge-rods, in combination with bounding-coils D, interlaced with the ends of the body-coils, and having their end portions parallel to the ends of the body part and secured thereto by connecting-rod or hinge-wire G, substantially as set forth.

8. In a wire mat, the body part formed of parallel coils of wire united by hinge-rods, in combination with bounding-coils D, interlaced with the ends of the body-coils,an.d having their end portions parallel to the ends of the body part andA secured thereto by connecting-rod or hinge-wire G and united by a splicetubeE, substantially as set forth.

' SEYMOUR ROGERS.

Y Vitnesses:

J F. MERRIMAN, H. XV. HARTMAN. p

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